Virginia Spirits 101: American Single Malt
So, we’ve talked about Virginia’s top produced spirit: whiskey – we’ve even done a deep dive into bourbon, a whiskey made with at least 51 percent corn and aged in new, charred oak barrels – but we’ve only just alluded to the new and exciting category of American Single Malt. A spirit that has developed […]
Meet the 2025 First Landing Cup Winners
It’s time to toast to the best of Virginia! The results are in for the inaugural First Landing Cup, a first-of-its-kind competition of distilled spirits made right here in the Old Dominion. Last month, a world-class panel of judges came to Richmond, Virginia, to taste 108 craft spirits from 33 distilleries across the commonwealth. A […]
Belly Up to the Bar: Lessons Before You Take a Sip of Whiskey
Adapted excerpt from Make it a Double: From Wretched to Wondrous: Tales of One Woman’s Lifelong Discovery of Whiskey Learning the art – or act for some of us – of whiskey nosing and tasting is a most pleasurable task, made more agreeable by the fact that it must be done with great repetition. But […]